Disentangling the effects of forage, social rank, and risk on movement autocorrelation of elephants using Fourier and wavelet analyses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 19108-19113

  Wittemyer, George ^a,b,c   Polansky, Leo ^b   Douglas Hamilton, Iain ^c,d   Getz, Wayne M ^b,e  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAVE THE ELEPHANTS   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Behavior; Foraging; GPS data; Movement ecology; Predation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEPHANT; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ELEPHANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA;

EID: 58049193043     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801744105     Document Type: Article

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